Open Thread

Sometimes the wingnuts are funny.

7 Comments

Steven D on April 19, 2006 at 5:17 pm

Why does all right wing humor involve murder or mayhem done to liberals? Just curious . . .

BooMan on April 19, 2006 at 5:23 pm

batteries hooked up to Helen Thomas’s jowls must fit into the ‘mayhem’ category…
Bearpaw on April 19, 2006 at 5:33 pm

Why does all right wing humor involve murder or mayhem done to liberals? Just curious . . .

You exaggerate. Not all of right-wing humor falls into that category. There’s also murder or mayhem done to muslims, murder or mayhem done to people of color, murder or mayhem done to women, murder or mayhem done to queers …

Heck, there’s even some right-wing humor that doesn’t involve murder or mayhem. They can’t usually get away with that in the comic strips in MediaCorp newspapers, so what they do instead is mock strawmen “liberal” attitudes.

(Granted, some lefty humor does that with strawmen versions of righty attitudes, but mostly it’s not necessary. Some of Jon Stewart’s funniest bits are when he just plays clips of righties being themselves. Of course, it’s a dark and twisted sort of humor, given that these people are in charge …)